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A Choice of Emblemes, and other devises : For the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised

by: Whitney, Geffrey, 1548?-1601?

Publication date: 1586

Topics: Emblems

Publisher: Imprinted at Leyden : In the house of Christopher Plantyn, by Francis Raphelengius

Collection: emblem; americana

Contributor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Language: English

Printer's device on t.-p.; title within ornamental border; full page woodcut of the arms of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, on verso of t.-p.; emblems illustrated with 247 woodcut engravings within ornamental borders. Marginal notes

Most of the emblems are from earlier works published by Plantin, more than half being identical with those in the works of Alciati, Sambucus, and Paradin. cf. Reprint of Whitney's "Choice of emblemes", edited by Henry Green, 1866. p. 252

Copy 1 is unbound ; cop. 2 imperfect, lacks p. 203-230

Cop. 2 is the first ed., with "Isaie" spelled "Esaie", verso of 2d preliminary leaf

Part 2 has half-title with the crest of the earls of Leicester and Warwick

Cf. Grolier club, New York. Catalogue of original and early editions of some ... English writers from Langland to Wither ... New York, 1893, p. 230-232

Signatures: *-** ***² A-Z a-f (f blank)

ESTC

McGeary & Nash. Emblem books at the University of Illinois

McGeary & Nash. Emblem books at the University of Illinois

STC

Notes

Missing leaves A4 and B1 (pp. 7-10); B4 and C1 (pp. 15-18); C4 (pp. 23-24); E1 (pp. 33-34); E4 (pp. 39-40); and X4-b4 (pp. 167-200). In addition, page 84 is labeled as 76.